9 May 2025

As the sold-out OASIS reunion tour approaches (first one in Cardiff, Wales on 4th July) MOJO gets set by celebrating the 50 Greatest Songs of Oasis: from Cigarettes & Alcohol to Half The World Away, Wonderwall to The Shock Of The Lightning, hymned by the magazine’s best writers.

Also in this issue: Grateful Dead at 60, their psychedelic pinnacle by David Fricke; The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques Burnel on ruck’n’roll; Tim Buckley’s astral journey; Rory Gallagher remembered, Clem Burke; MJ Lenderman; Gregory Isaacs; The Roches; Justin Hayward; Stereolab; Peggy Seeger; Pete Shelley; Bennie Maupin; The Lemonheads; Doc Pomus; The Searchers; Shudder To Think; and more.

This month’s CD is named Dead Roots: The Grateful Dead Songbook.
A selection of the blues, bluegrass, soul, country and rock’n’roll that inspired
San Francisco’s psychedelic adventurers. Starring Jimmy Reed, Johnny Cash,
Bobby Bland, Judy Collins, Elizabeth Cotton, Tampa Red and more.

You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home address. Info HERE.